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Oral history interview with Michael Goldmann-Gilead

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2015.373.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0832

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    Oral history interview with Michael Goldmann-Gilead

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    Interview Summary
    Michael "Miki" Goldmann-Gilead, born in 1925 in Katowice, Poland, recounts his childhood in Poland; his family life; antisemitism in Katowice; his war-time experiences in the Przemysl ghetto, including a vicious beating from Josef Schwammberger (the ghetto's Nazi commandant); his subsequent deportation to the Szebnie concentration camp and from there to Auschwitz-Birkenau; his Zionist activities and friendships in the camps; his transfer to Buna-Monowitz, where he worked for the I.G. Farben industries; his flight from a death march in January 1945; being rescued by a non-Jewish Polish family; volunteering as a soldier in the Red Army; being wounded in battle outside of Prague, Czech Republic; visiting Katowice after the war and his experiences in the Pocking displaced persons camp in Germany; his attempted immigration to Palestine in May 1947 on a ship that was intercepted by the British; being transferred to a detention camp on Cyprus, where he met his first wife and engaged in educational and Zionist activities; his immigration in 1948 to the newly founded State of Israel; working in the Israeli police force and rising to the rank of Chief Inspector; starting to work in 1960 as an investigator for Bureau 06, a special unit within the Israeli police force set up to investigate and interrogate Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in preparation for his trial; gathering evidence and identifying survivor witnesses for the trial; the structure and administration of Bureau 06 and its daily work; his interactions with colleagues and supervisors at Bureau 06, including his work and friendship with Avner Less; his interactions with Adolf Eichmann; his work during the trial as the personal aide to Gideon Hausner, the Attorney General heading the prosecution; the unexpected moment during the Eichmann trial when he was pointed out by a testifying witness as the boy who had survived a beating of 80 lashes by Schwammberger in the Przemysl ghetto; the events during the night of May 31 to June 1, 1962 when Mr. Goldmann served as a state witness during Eichmann's execution and was tasked with scattering Eichmann's ashes into the Mediterranean sea; his departure from the police service in 1963 and his work in Latin America as an emissary of the Jewish Agency; his subsequent work as the head of the Central Administration of Schlichut until his retirement in 1995; participating as a witness for the prosecution at the trial of Josef Schwammberger in Germany in the early 1990s; and his life and activities after his retirement, including his work for Yad Vashem.
    Interviewee
    Michael Goldmann-Gilead
    Interviewer
    Anatol Steck
    Date
    interview:  2015 October 28-2015 October 29

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Provenance
    Anatol Steck, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Michael "Miki" Goldmann-Gilead on October 28 and 29, 2015 in his home in Givat Shmuel, Israel. The interview was conducted in German.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:05:05
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